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A History of the County of Berkshire
… in the form of an L. The vicarage is a fine early Georgian house of red brick, and the principal entrance is … by a wooden door-case of the Ionic order. The house now known as 'the Garden House' is a good example of a … land near the bottom of the valley. There is no railway or canal in the parish, but the road from Hampstead Norris to …
A History of the County of Berkshire
… which runs up almost to Faringdon Clump, stands Stanford Place, built about the middle of the 19th century by George … bowl of circular form and of doubtful date. The rectory-house is a square Queen Anne building. The Manor Farm, north … afterwards to Edward Loveden Loveden. 90 Ferrers. Vairy or and gules. Clare. Or three cheverons gules. Desfencer. …
A History of the County of Worcester
… 1797 3 by a single-span iron one, which in its turn gave place in 1911 to a ferro-concrete bridge. The church stands … 5 December 1882 having destroyed the whole of the previous house with the exception of the 18th-century north front. … lord between the Verdons and the Washbournes. Virdon. Or a fret gules. Lacy. Or a lion purpure. William Washbourne …
A History of the County of Huntingdon
… a quarter from Peterborough East Station. Stanground Manor House was totally destroyed by fire in 1899. Richard Kidder … who became Bishop of Bath and Wells in 1691, in place of Bishop Ken, was vicar of Stanground in 1659. He was ejected in 1662, not because he objected to episcopacy or the Prayer Book, but because he refused to subscribe to …
A History of the County of Sussex
… there is a small lake, the parish church, and Stanmer Place. The north-bound road is the main street of the village, containing most of the dozen or so cottages which house the population of the parish, which, in 1931, was 93. …
A History of the County of Hertford
… ABBOTS Stanstede (xi cent.); Stanstede Abbatis, Abbotts or Abbot (xiv cent.); generally Stansted Abbots after xvi … and beans. The old church of St. James and the manor-house of Stanstead Bury lie on high ground at some distance … used by coaches, &c., travelling to and from Norfolk and Suffolk (via Stortford) as a more direct way than the main …
A History of the County of Hertford
… and was called Pons de Thele, Punt de Tyull, Pons Tegule or Pons Tegleri 1 (Pontherigg, xiv cent.). In the 16th … and along this road are situated the church and manor-house, with St. Margaretsbury (so named only about twenty … all donatives it became presentative. 95 A meeting-place for Protestant Dissenters in the parish was certified …
The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent
… as its name implies, Stane signifying a stone, and stede a place in the Saxon language. THIS PARISH lies in a most … The soil of it is very poor, consisting either of chalk or a red stiff earth, both mixed with quantities of flint … parish, which is a considerable distance from the sea, or any branch of it, and a place, where there are no fish …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… with the family which gave its name to Alton Barnes, 8 or with the possible custom of describing Stanton as … boundary stream. In 1773 the church and the vicarage-house stood a short distance away from the main part of the … century, when inclosure of the common arable fields took place, arable acreage in Stanton had fallen to about 875 a. …
A History of the County of Oxford
… lie in the south-western angle, and Manor Farm and Stanton House in the northern angle of the junction. The Mill-house … corner of the Breach Groundsthe name indicates a clearing or assart which skirt the south side of Stanton Great Wood. … village in 1646. 45 Two bodies dug up at Bayard's Watering Place in Hearne's time were supposed, he tells us, to be two …